The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Haddon)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time , by Mark Haddon, 2003 This book was suggested to me by my wife when I asked her about Tuesdays with Morrie . She thought it was a good read and that I'd find it interesting. (Or maybe it was, if I enjoyed Tuesdays , I'd enjoy this one.) Whatever the case, I enjoyed this book. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is something new to me as far as reading goes. The narrator, Christopher, is telling the story, part of which involves writing the book about the incidents in his life, and this is the book that we are reading. Additionally, Christopher has some kind of mental disabilities -- I don't think it was stated outright in the text -- but he is high functioning and good at math. In fact, part of the focus of the book is that he wants to take his "A Levels" exam and pass it with an A grade. (Thanks to twitter and the Math-Twitter-Blog-O-Sphere , I've heard of "A Levels Maths" from